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GIOVANNI See also:ANDREA (1275-1348)
, See also:Italian canonist, was See also:born at Mugello, near See also:Florence, about 1275
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He studied See also:canon See also:law at See also:Bologna, where he distinguished himself in this subject so much that he was made See also:professor at See also:Padua, and later at See also:Pisa and Bologna, rapidly acquiring a high reputation for his learning and his moral See also:character
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Curious stories are told of him; for instance, that by way of self-See also:mortifiCation he See also:lay every See also:night for twenty years on the See also:bare ground with only a See also:bear's skin for a covering; that in an See also:audience he had with See also:Pope See also:Boniface VIII. his extraordinary shortness of stature led the pope to believe he was kneeling, and to ask him three times to rise, to the immense merriment of the cardinals; and that he had a daughter, Novella,so accomplished in law as to be able to read her See also:father's lectures in his See also:absence, and so beautiful, that she had to read behind a See also:curtain lest her See also:face should distract the See also:attention of the students
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He is said to have died at Bologna of the See also:plague in 1348, and an See also:epitaph in the See also: |
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